Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn: The Story of the Thanksgiving Symbols

Every of our holidays has its personal acquainted traditions: Trick-or-treating on Halloween, consuming turkey on Thanksgiving, ready for Santa Claus on Christmas, exchanging playing cards on Valentine’s Day. However the place do these customs come from, when did they start, and why will we proceed to look at them?

Within the partaking mix of cautious analysis and energetic prose that has earned her books an enduring place on the vacation bookshelf, Edna Barth explores the multicultural origins and evolution of the acquainted and not-so-familiar symbols and legends related to our favourite holidays. Filled with fascinating historic particulars and little-known tales, these books are each informative and interesting. Festively illustrated by Ursula Arndt, they’re now out there once more in hardcover in addition to paperback editions, that includes new, eye-catching jacket designs, and enjoyable vacation actions contained in the paperback covers. Every ebook contains an annotated listing of vacation tales and poems and an index.